Pain Suppression
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| Pain Suppression | |
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| Usable by | |
| Class | Priest |
| Properties | |
| Type | Defensive |
| School | Holy |
| Cooldown | 2 min |
| Talents | |
| Talented | Yes |
| Talent tree | Discipline, Tier 9 |
| Improvement talents | Mental Agility, Silent Resolve |
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- "It's just a flesh wound."TCGFoO 60
To a well diciplined mind, Pain is just a distraction.( no pun intended)
Pain Suppression is acquired in the Priest Discipline tree. It is an 8 sec shield buff which permanently reduces a friendly target's threat by 5%, and while active, reduces all damage taken by 40% and increases the friendly target's resistance to dispel mechanics by 65%.
Notes
- An often life-saving shield, while being pounded on by multiple enemies, particularly in arenas.
- The 65% Dispel resistance stacks with the Silent Resolve talent, giving all buffs an 85% resist chance.
- In Patch 2.2 the spell received a slight change in functionality, as described in the patch 2.2 notes. The change affected the dispel resistance of all buffs currently on the priest at the time of the spells activation and through its duration, rather than only buffs cast while the spell is active.
- As of Patch 2.3, now usable on friendly targets (was self-only), instantly reduces the target's threat by 5%, reduces damage taken by 40% (was 65%) and its cooldown has been reduced to 2 minutes (was 3 minutes).
Strategy
Pain Suppression really shines in a PvP or Arena situation. No one likes to have their enemies healed, so healers are often "target #1" and focused on by many enemies at once, especially in arenas. A common strategy for an opposing group is to all simultaneously blow their most powerful cooldowns and spells on the enemy's healer. To avoid being instantly knocked out of the game, a priest can pop this spell in an attempt to survive the onslaught. If used with any combination of fear, shield, or grenade, and heals; it is possible to survive an otherwise hopeless situation. Hopefully, while the priest was the focus, his enemies will have been destroyed or fairly weakened by teammates.
Coupled with Silent Resolve, it is rare that Pain Suppression and any shield or HoTs will be removed. It is important to note that the 5% aggro reduction component of this buff is permanent. The more times it is used on a tank, the less dps is required to pull aggro off of him. It is not advisable to use this ability on tanks on fights where dps aggro is already an issue. In situations where mass AoE is needed, a Pain Suppression can be used in place of a Blessing of Protection to save a caster who has pulled aggro.
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